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This statement was adopted at the closing rally of the 32nd youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 1st August at Hoge Rielen in Belgium, by the comrades present from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spanish state, Switzerland as well as the guests
from Brazil, Mexico and the USA.

Islamabad’s development authority announced plans to remove katchi abadis, or low-income housing camps, across the city earlier this month and succeeded in obtaining a court judgement saying the settlements were illegal.

The government of SYRIZA-ANEL who voted the new memorandum, in the same line with previous governments, has proved that they cannot enforce the new austerity measures that destroyed the life of workers and people in Greece and complete the overturn of the massive NO of the working class, without resorting to the last form of social dominance: the state-police violence and repression.

More than 15,000 people demonstrated yesterday evening in the streets of Athens against the vote in Parliament of a third memorandum which imposes new austerity measures on the Greek people and workers. It was the first day of general strike since Tsipras has been in government. ADEDY (the main trade union of the civil service) demanded: “the abolition of the memorandum” and “the cancellation of the debt”.